ARTIST STATEMENT
Fragile Futures begins with beauty — and uses it deliberately.
The work draws viewers in through aesthetic familiarity, material intrigue, and forms that echo the natural world before revealing the environmental contradictions embedded within their own making. These sculptures are not neutral objects. They are constructed from the same systems of production, consumption, and disposal that place the natural world at risk.
The exhibition is structured as a staged progression across three zones — from desire through recognition to uncertain futures — each asking the viewer to look more slowly, stay longer, and sit with what they find. The work does not instruct. It creates conditions for recognition.
Fragile Futures holds contradiction without resolving it: care and harm, attraction and consequence, preservation and loss. It asks what futures we are actively constructing — and whether we are willing to see them clearly.
EXHIBITION PROPOSAL
Fragile Futures is a practice-led research exhibition that uses aesthetic attraction to draw viewers into systems of consumption before revealing the material consequences embedded within them.
Working with waste generated through 3D printing processes — a technology now present in homes, schools, and makerspaces across Australia, yet whose waste streams remain largely invisible — the exhibition constructs sculptural works that initially present as desirable, familiar, or carefully preserved. Through proximity and sustained looking, the material realities beneath begin to surface.
The exhibition moves across three interconnected zones.
Zone 1: establishes trust through beauty, coastal nostalgia, and museum aesthetics.
Zone 2: collapses the distance between viewer and system — through absence, residue, and illumination.
Zone 3: holds the future open: seven large vertical sculptural totems, bioplastic sphere objects, and speculative panel works explore engineered continuity and unresolved ecological consequence without offering resolution.
Zone 2: collapses the distance between viewer and system — through absence, residue, and illumination.
Zone 3: holds the future open: seven large vertical sculptural totems, bioplastic sphere objects, and speculative panel works explore engineered continuity and unresolved ecological consequence without offering resolution.
The work has been partially launched in 2026 through solo exhibitions at Meeniyan Art Gallery and Yarra Sculpture Gallery, with further exhibitions at Kyneton Auction House Gallery in the schedule. The full body of work will be complete by October 2026.
COLLABORATIONS
The 3D print waste incorporated throughout the works has been sourced collaboratively — from Melbourne-based small print businesses and from a Bass Coast 3D print artist — embedding the exhibition's material logic within real local and regional production networks.
A photographic collaboration with South Gippsland photographer Karli Michelle will introduce six spotlit works of living local marine creatures into Zone 1, bringing the living organism alongside its preserved sculptural counterpart.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Sept - Dec, 2025
✔️ Research, develop proposals, identify partners.
✔️ Commence waste collection from partners
✔️ Dec - Prepare website and studio.
January - June, 2026
✔️ Create initial prototypes and small scale exhibition to pilot.
✔️ Book prospective galleries for 2026 period.
✔️ Solo Exhibition - launch Meeniyan Gallery, April 2026
✔️ Solo Exhibition - Yarra Sculpture Gallery, June 2026
Visitor feedback and installation of a small scale exhibition will inform the larger body of artwork proposed.
July - Dec, 2026
Prepare submissions for select grants and Universities.
This will provide a catalogue for prospective exhibitions, expos and major galleries for 2027.
Coming - Kyneton Auction House Gallery, Sept 2026
VISION to REALITY
You are drawn in by beauty.
You sense its loss.
Then you recognise your own desire within the system that created it —
the Anthropocene paradox.
Discarded printers and material waste litter the floor.
Fragile sea forms extend into small, collectible objects.
3D printing — and its waste — is transformed into sculptural works, projects, and products.
Fragile sea forms extend into small, collectible objects.
3D printing — and its waste — is transformed into sculptural works, projects, and products.
Not imagined futures.
A future in formation — and an invitation to be part of it.
A future in formation — and an invitation to be part of it.
Launched April 2026.
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